Mother, 6 Children Die in Israeli Attack in Lebanon
Israeli warplanes struck eastern Lebanon on Tuesday, killing a woman and six of her children in an attack aimed at suspected guerrilla bases of the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah.
Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai said in a statement that he had expressed sorrow to Lebanon through a third party. Israel said the killings were an accident.
As expected, there was retaliation this morning, when more than a dozen rockets hit the town of Kiryat Shemona in northern Israel. At least eight injuries were reported.
In Tuesday’s attack, Lebanese security officials said, one Israeli rocket hit a farm where a couple and their seven children were working southwest of Baalbek. The mother and six of her children, ages 2 to 13, were killed, the security officials said.
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